According to brothers Shep and Ian Murray, chief executive officers and co-founders of vineyard vines, the company will move its company headquarters to support the rapid growth of the business. The new office space will be located at 181 Harbor Dr. at Shippan Landing, a coastal business park. The move will be effective January 2015 and construction will begin at the 91,040 s/f waterfront space this month. With the goals of establishing a permanent campus for the growing company, vineyard vines has collaborated with the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD) to promise job creation as part of its upcoming move.
"Our growth has been so exciting and more space is critical to continue to support that growth," said Shep Murray, vineyard vines. "With help from the great teams at Newmark Grubb Knight Frank (NGKF), George Comfort & Sons, CPG Architects and Jones Lang LaSalle, we found and are outfitting a space that will truly reflect the core values on which we founded and have built vineyard vines."
"Our new space will reflect our motto & company mantra, 'Every day should feel this good," said Ian Murray. "We always strived to make vineyard vines a great place to work, and we're thrilled to be able to punctuate that effort this year with our move and new space."
James Ritman, the NGKF executive vice president and fellow Brunswick student alongside Shep and Ian, worked with vineyard vines and Shippan Landing owner, a partnership involving George Comfort & Sons and Angelo, Gordon & Co., to negotiate the waterfront lease.
vineyard vines is working to design and build out a functional, innovative and welcoming work space that will suit the needs of the growing company and represent the lifestyle for which vineyard vines is best known.